Quotes About Autonomy

No disrespect, but I don't make decisions based on opinions.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They're not for sale.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live: and unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them.

I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.

Five stage. Clinger. Totally not fucking cool!

The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.

Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.

Você é livre para fazer suas escolhas, mas é prisioneiro das conseqüências.

Don't waste energy living a life someone else designed for you. Life is one per customer. Let them do theirs. You do yours.

S/M flies in the face of every attempt the state makes to appropriate our bodies, our labor, our time, and our imaginations.…the state is deeply offended by any group of people who say, 'My body doesn't belong to you, it belongs to me, so fuck off'…

Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to have them choose what you must be, and what you must not be, to have little choice in your life. If you were older, you could choose your own way.

I think people's lives are there own.

She didn't want a husband. She certainly didn't want a husband who never spoke to her, much less consulted her wishes. She didn't want any man who would take over her life and tell her what she could or could not do and expect more from her than she was prepared to give. She'd had enough of that. But

She appreciated the fact that the wolf did not caper, bow down, yelp, or slaver on her, in the slavish and inconsiderate way of dogs. The wolf was no whore for man's approval. He fed himself.

What I would say to people right now is that you can't count on anything that you don't do yourself," Jim said. "If your hand don't put it there, and you don't provide for your own family yourself, by your own intelligence and by your own means, you can't count on anybody else to do it for you.

Circumstances and other people are not in control of an individual's character or of the life that lies endlessly before

The ultimate freedom we have as individuals is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon and think about.

Laotse, a wise man of ancient China, observed: "When the work of the best rulers is done, their task accomplished, the people all remark, 'We have done it ourselves.

God both develops and, for our good, tests our character by leaving us to decide. He calls us to responsible citizenship in his kingdom by saying—in effect or in reality—as often as possible, "My will for you in this case is that you to decide on your own.

great part of our growth includes disengaging from the expectations of others.

But responsibility and initiative are the heart of our relationship with God. We are not robots, and he does not work with robots.

But purpose is personal. It can't be right or wrong. It can't be true or false. It can't not be about you. It's how you decide to live your own life. If someone else tells you how to live, you are not free. If you don't choose your own purpose, you are a slave.

You can't have the freedom to believe if you do not have the freedom not to believe.